The Limits of Competence: Knowledge, Higher Education and Society - Couverture souple

BARNETT

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0335193412 ISBN 13 : 9780335193417

Editeur : Open University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Competence is a term which is making its entrance in the university. How might it be understood at this level? The Limits of Competence takes an uncompromising line, providing a sustained critique of the notion of competence as wholly inadequate for higher education.

Currently, we are seeing the displacement of one limited version of competence by another even more limited interpretation. In the older definition - one of academic competence - notions of disciplines, objectivity and truth have been central. In the new version, competence is given an operational twist and is marked out by know-how, competence and skills. In this operationalism, the key question is not 'What do students understand?' but 'What can students do?'

The book develops an alternative view, suggesting that, for our universities, a third and heretical conception of human being is worth considering. Our curricula might, instead, offer an education for life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0335193412
• ISBN 13: 9780335193417
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible